What are your top jazz releases from 2016? What do you think

does anyone actually listen to anything thats not 20th century hardbop

I haven't heard many jazz albums this year, but I enjoyed:
Shabaka and the Ancestors - Wisdom of the Elders
The Olympians - s/t
Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings on Earth (jazz-punk)
Kaytranada - 99.9% (though more jazz-influenced hip-hop than improvised/instrumental jazz)
The only one I'm lukewarm on is 99.9% because of the mediocre guest features, though the instrumental cuts are intricate and infectious. the other albums are amazing on my list are amazing. haven't heard anything from Scaruffi's list.

>>69771231
>haven't heard anything from Scaruffi's list.
sounds exactly right. should put BBNG on your list too.

>>69771164
I don't think any of the albums on Scaruffi's list are hard bop

>>69771338
I heard the BBNG album but it didn't make a huge impression on me. I really ought to revisit it, thanks for reminding me anon. have you heard anything good?

Have not heard of or listened to a single one of those albums

>>69771114
lol I thought the first one was Vijayjay at first glance

Here's my list:
https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/jazzthreadguy/strm_relyear,ss.rd/2016

Still hoping to review 5-10 more before the end of the year. What am I missing?

>>69771164
wat

>>69771114
Nice to see Vandermark getting some love
that Brotzmann album didn't leave much of an impression on me, sadly
The Bynum album had a few fascinating moments (namely the sultry tones on the 2nd track) but was mostly meandering
>A fucking ECM release
Looks like a nice list overall. Still haven't listened to that Threadgill album, looking forward to it. "2 pianos!!"

>>69771799
Shift - Logan Richardson and Jim Rotondi - Dark Blue. Also curious to see what you thought of Fire Orchestra and the Thing/DKV trio collab.

>>69772559
Already did Rotondi

>>69772439
What's wrong with ECM?

lusty negro attitudes

If Esperanza Spalding counts as jazz fusion then definitely that.

otherwise its a tie between these two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GBdjjLJ8Qs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcjAFF8wGHo

although I just heard the new fire orchestra and it was excellent

lots of other stuff too but I didnt develop a list this year

>>69771114
The Iyer/Leo Smith album is realllll good. That Nels Cline album is pretty lame though.

Best jazz albums of 2016 were
Blood Quartet - Deep Red
Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps
Black Bombain w/Peter Brotzmann (it's Brotzmann with a stoner metal band shut the fuck up)
Phallus Dei - Black Dawn
Anna Hogberg - Attack
JH3 - Fusion Machine
Saint Francis Duo - Peacemaker Assembly (more drony free improv, but shut the fuck up)
Sun Ra - In Some Far Place: Roma '77
Idris Ackamoor - We Be All Africans
Warped Dreamer - Lomahongva

>>69774719
>Black Bombain w/Peter Brotzmann (it's Brotzmann with a stoner metal band shut the fuck up)
and this is why other countries don't legalize acid

What is The Epic of 2016 ??

>>69774742
Anna Hogberg Attack

Only it doesn't suck and instead of it being a shitty rehash of Pharoah and Coltrane, it's tense and horrifying

>>69774804
Have you never heard Ascension?

>>69774864
I have heard it, yes.

>>69774892
well parts of that are tense and horrifying in particular the pharoah parts

>>69774902
Hardly in the manner done by Hogberg

Those are tense in a much more explosive way because that's how Pharoah do.

Hogberg is claustrophobic

>>69771114
John Zorn/Flaga - Book Of Angels 27, also maybe my AOTY.

I havent listened to much jazz this year, but some jazzy things ive liked are:
Meta Meta - MM3
Niechec - Nichec
BADBADNOTGOOD - IV
Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps
Fire! Orchestra - Ritual (disappointed in this since Exit! and Enter were masterpieces)
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke

>>69774922
ok its on next after logan richardson

kinda cool cover art

>>69774936
>John Zorn/Flaga - Book Of Angels 27, also maybe my AOTY.
Did you hear any of his other stuff this year? Mockingbird was excellent.

So did you prefer She Sleeps to Ritual?

>>69771799
>What am I missing
just good taste

>>69772559
damn Locked Out of Heaven was so super spacey and dreamy it was awesome

>>69774967
I haven't heard Mockingbird, I thought you meant The Painted Bird (jazz/prog rock stuff), which I thought was pretty good too if not a bit repetitive in the second half. Do you have a link to Mockingbird?

I did prefer She Sleeps to Ritual, but I think I just rated Ritual the same because Exit! is probably the most important album of my musical life over the last few years, and I have a soft spot for them. Part 4 of Ritual is really good though.

>>69775106
>Do you have a link to Mockingbird?
nah I blind bought the cd

>Exit! is probably the most important album of my musical life over the last few years
damn

>>69775145
rip it and upload it then

>>69775145
>>69775252
oh nvm its on rutracker

>>69775252
and why would I do that

literally why does anyone do that? legitimately curious

>>69775272
someone pays bounties. It may have been what.cd or hasitleaked

>>69775323
*
pays bounty points

points used to download

>>69775272
to share the love of music of course

>>69774922
I'm only 6 minutes in but this is actually incredibly similar to Ascension

>>69771114
The fact that he doesn't review or even rate jazz albums should be a red flag